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256b on the blockchain

I have a small fetish for distributed storage and recently came to think about that some of the smaller demoscene productions could fit inside a Namecoin id/-field (max 520 bytes).

In this example I have inserted Circus by Depth into the Namecoin blockchain in a id/ named after the pouët prodnumber (57280). We can now retrieve the prod with this super-simple python script (assuming that the Namecoin software is running on our computer):